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The NLRB and Fight for $15

Max Zahn In These Times
The NLRB Just Dealt a Major Blow to the Fight for $15. Now’s the Time to Take Stock of the Campaign.

Pipeline Civil Disobiedience Wins in Court

Andrea Germanos Common Dreams
Judge Drops Charges Against 13 Who Argued Pipeline Civil Disobedience Action Was "Necessary" to Save Planet. "We are part of the movement that's standing up and saying, 'We won't let this go by on our watch.'"

It’s Oklahoma’s Turn to Strike

Eric Blanc Jacobin
On Monday, schools will be shut down across Oklahoma as rank-and-file teachers look to build on the momentum of the West Virginia strike.

Israeli Forces Shoot Unarmed Protesters. 15 Killed

Mondoweiss Editors Mondoweiss
The protests were organized as “The Great March of Return,” a nonviolent gathering of Palestinian refugees who demand the right to return to their families’ homes inside Israel.

After the March Election: El Salvador’s Left Faces Starkest Crisis in Decades

Hilary Goodfriend Jacobin
President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén (left), and then-mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele
In the wake of the March 4th electoral rout El Salvador’s left is facing its starkest crisis in decades. The resounding rebuke of the FMLN and its government has resulted in significant gains for the quasi-fascist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and exacerbated serious internal divisions.

Nationwide Protests Rage against Colombia’s Economic Policies

James Jordan, Constanza Vieira and Helda Martínez Alliance for Global Justice
Demands include popular participation in the peace process, an end to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that threaten the livelihoods of family farmers and workers, and government fulfillment of unkept promises for infrastructure development and Peasant Reserve Zones in rural areas.

John L. Lewis With Atlanta Fast Food Strikers

On Aug 29, fast food workers in Atlanta and 49 other cities around the country went on strike. Rep John Lewis joined Atlanta Jobs with Justice to fight for a living wage and a union for fast food workers.